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Hero in Seattle shooting getting married; social media site urges readers to buy him gifts

Jon Meis is taken from the scene by medics after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University on Thursday. Meis is the student monitor who is credited with stopping the suspected gunman, Aaron R. Ybarra, 26, by pepper spraying him and tackling him.Photo: AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo

SEATTLE — Readers of the social media website Reddit are being asked to buy wedding gifts for the man being hailed as a hero after he subdued a gunman who opened fire Thursday on a Seattle college campus.

Jon Meis and other students stopped the gunman at Seattle Pacific University.

A 26-year-old suspect was apprehended following the shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead and two other young people wounded. Police say the quick action by Meis likely saved lives.

The 22-year-old Meis is a dean’s list electrical engineering student and is planning to marry his girlfriend later this month. A post on the Seattle Reddit page says: “This is the wedding registry for the man who subdued the SPU gunman. You know what to do.”

A voice message at a phone listing for his parents’ house asks for privacy and prayers for the family of the man killed.